New Kid on the Farm

Hi guys, this is Minh Phan, another freshman here at Stanford. I was born in Vietnam and immigrated to Houston about 8 years ago. Since I was little, I have always had an interest in becoming a doctor. I guess what draws me most to medicine are both the physical and mental demands that come along with the physician-patient relationships. Lately, however, I've also become interested in teaching and I'm currently thinking about taking sometime off to work for Teach for America after college.

Currently, I am taking the normal track for a freshman Math 51 and Chem 31x, which consumes much of my free time. I also write once every week for The Stanford Daily...check out my articles on the newspaper website :-D. The surgery panel today was great. What surprised me the most about it was how receptive the speakers were...not only did they clearly answer the questions posed to them; they also gave the students helpful incites by expanding on the questions themselves. It is pretty late now and I guess I'll expand on the surgery panel later.

I loved the Surgery Panel!

Hello, this is Tony, a Sophomore at Stanford. I want to thank you very much to the SPA team for setting up the Surgery panel. I learnt a great deal tonight. I am a pre-medical student, but I am not sure what speciality to go into. The panel really helped clear lots of misconceptions and questions I always had about the surgical profession. I especially liked that the panelists addressed how rapidly the field is changing, and how machines will play that role. I also got lots of insights into how speciality match work, and what type of people usually go into surgery (instead of internal medicine) Thank you again, I loved the hot chocolate and cookies, very nice of you. Thank you, you are really helping confused pre-meds like me get really useful advise. (woohoo, the second episode of Season 7 Scrubs comes on tonight!)

Sincerely,
Tony

A Warm Introduction - Hillary Lin

Hello all!

My name is Hillary Lin and I'm one of the hundreds of frosh premeds on Stanford campus (although I still tell myself that I'm unique anyways). I was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and I grew up in Stony Brook, New York (on Long Island). No, I did not always think I was going to be premed, and I am still open to crises and changes in my plans, but for now I am straight on the premed path! This means I'm taking Chem 31X, yes. :(

At the moment I am living in FroSoCo (which I love - I view the distance from the main quad as the only opportunity for me to exercise during the day) and I spend most of my day hanging out, eating, sleeping...no really I'm doing homework most of the time but I do hang out, eat, and occasionally sleep while I'm working. My hobbies (which have suffered from lack of time recently) include all of the above plus reading and writing. As you might have noticed, I'm not much of an athlete so I set my bike on high gear and do power biking from FroSoCo to class in five minutes or less.

Anyways, I'll write more after our Surgery Panel tomorrow - ta ta for now!



Hillary

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